Neglection Comes Out Of Fashion!

So I’ve sort of forgotten about my blog like the orphans. Speaking of which, no one wants to help the terminally ill children. Bastards. I try to use it as a hook while I’m doing my cold-call surveys to random households in the states. It doesn’t work as well as I thought it would. Just so I don’t be labelled as ‘unmoral’, it wasn’t my idea to lie like that - I just read whatever is on the script. On my introduction it doesn’t need to be verbatim though, so I don’t always use the terminally ill joke.

WE HAVE CHURCHS HERE. (Churchs the fast food place not the big..you know..god temple). We were doing quicktrack which is basically a 40 minute survey about fast food restaurants but there were some special 2-4 minute ones where they just question specific fast-food places like Churchs or Round Table’s Pizza. I remember someone commenting to me about doing a 2-3 minute survey about Churchs - it was really hard to complete because no one ate there. So I was amused when I was walking in San Jose and saw Churchs Chicken as a fast food place, I was like, “OMFG WE HAVE CHURCHS. I DO SURVEYS ABOUT THAT. NO ONE EATS THERE. OMFG LET’S GO THERE TO MAKE SURE IT EXISTS *points*”

So at work, who basically hires who-ever speaks good enough English, this consists of criminals, criminals who have been to prison, ex-gang members, part/full time pimps, ex-cops, ex-marines, the ghetto, the broke, part-time hookers, and basically what ever you can think of.

I hang out with the Ghetto and the Criminals and sometimes like…one ex-marine, but it’s mostly criminals. I.E I hang out with the interesting people. Though, one would think that the ghetto people aren’t that interesting. I dunno, it’s amusing when they’re talking about what STD they might have contracted while kissing that rat. (Okay that didn’t happen). Well, I find that the ghetto people are more straight forward and it most certainly beats the conversations where people are giving other people advice on how to live their life and whose boyfriend she’s cheating on and who will be a good match to date and…blah. Plus I find their vocabulary very entertaining.

Also, you learn at lot from criminals…not in like the ‘create a crime’ kinda way but more in the, ‘how to concealed yourself while walking in the streets’ or ‘how to avoid other crimmials’…which now that I think about sort of leads up to creating a crime but that’s not what I’m using it for.

The part time pimp knows….a hella a lot of hookers obviously and he was pointing out who’s who. He was surprise to see this one girl there (at work) so he went up to her and went, “Sooooo, does your boyfriend know what you do on the weekends?” I laughed so loud.

I eat with an ex-gang member everyonce in a while. It’s nice to know that you’re hanging out with a really cool -most likely- murderer. (I mean that in no harsh way. It really is). He teaches me a lot of things..not to make it sound that I’ll be joining some sort of gang in order to prove my self-worth or anything. The fact that he’s an ex-gang member and is still living shows that there’s intelligence.

So I know how much hookers make in a night, I know that I will never want to join a gang, nor go to prison, and I learned a new dialect of English.

Going to work is actually kinda cool.